The competition called for a “front porch”--constructed with reused materials--that
would provide an outdoor gathering space, storage, and outdoor movie screen for Hope House--a Wake Forest
non-profit.
Our winning design echoed the roof and facade lines of the adjacent Hope House, but “dissolved” the front wall so that the character and spatial connection of the front porch could extend through the
whole lot.
This dissolved facade is a porous wall, split into two sections that border the
porch’s floor on the front and back without forming a full enclosure. These walls are to be built with unused lumber cutoffs from construction sites, so they are in a real
sense built from the remnant pieces of a traditional house.